I am baffled that the ME/CFS unit at Vall-d'Hebron would treat people with GET: - In November 2020, Castro-Marrero and Alegre-Martin (director of...
That Dr Naviaux participates in a functional medicine conference that seems mostly quack-ey does not particularly inspire confidence into his...
They replied quickly, although they first changed the title to "People with debilitating fatigue". I sent a second mail and then they changed it...
Funding: JC-M received financial support from Laboratorios Viñas, S.A. (Barcelona, Spain). This study was supported by the Vall d'Hebron...
I'm afraid that some of Gil and Seliin's findings may be due to their small sample size (10 ME/CFS patients, 16 healthy controls). The UK ME/CFS...
Evidence review H, pages 149 to 174 of the PDF. The title starts with: "PACE trial: White 2011".
I didn't quote this part for the sake of brevity but Dr Navis did mention this issue: Participants in the study were overwhelmingly white, and 70...
Article in the New York Times about the study by the post-Covid clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, on non-hospitalized patients...
This post has been copied and following discussion moved from this thread: USA: NIH National Institute of Health The NIH has awarded a $2.5M R01...
The NIH has awarded a $2.5M R01 grant to Drs Liisa Selin and Anna Gil for their work on altered T cells in ME/CFS. This follows their 2019 Ramsay...
It seems to me that part of the explanation for the authors' conclusion lies in the acknowledgements: "We wish to thank Professor Simon Wessely,...
I sent a mail to the NIHR Evidence contact address. -- Dear Madam or Sir, I am writing to you regarding a NIHR Alert article on a study on...
The NIHR article is titled: "People with chronic fatigue want to be taken seriously and to receive personalised, empathetic care" The first...
Out of all the journals this study could have been published in, I am surprised that it appeared in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. And it...
Interestingly (bolding mine): As a student, I was sometimes defeated by explanations of signs, symptoms, and mechanisms of disease that didn't...
From this update from Dr Ron Tompkins (bolding mine): -- In 2020, OMF secured a $1 million grant to launch the first year of an international,...
Someone commented in the thread on the response by Busse et al. that people with ME now have to take on the whole of EBM -- Guyatt being one of...
Exactly. The article mentions the "garbage-in, garbage-out" issue with meta-analyses: Why Busse, Guyatt, Schünemann et al. are so adamant on...
There is an interesting response from a GP / PCP to Schünemann's article:
Unfortunately the GRADE handbook does not explicitly suggest that clinicians should know (the quality of) the evidence behind a graded...
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